Today was supposed to be nice and quiet. No parents, no dog, and no staff, I should have had the house to myself. But no. Nothing ever goes the way you want it too. And I knew that from experience. So when the host club arrived at my door fully dressed and ready to go at 11:00 a.m. I should have been prepared right? But no. I was still in my bed; sleeping. I had to answer the door in my PJ's. I never answer the door in my PJ's, let alone with bed head. But Sunday, the one day everyone is out of the house, no one and I mean no one is supposed to come to my house and ring my doorbell when I'm still asleep. But then again I'm not supposed to have any friends, let alone guy friends. But everything always changes on you; destiny can change its course. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst, but right know while I'm standing at the door half asleep seeing every member of the host club (other than harhui, because I'm sure she has better things to be doing right now, that or she scolded them.), their smiling faces (yes that includes Mori) focused right on me; when I look my worst. Suddenly realising who were standing on my very door step, I slam the door in their faces. Put my hair up in a messy bun, and open it once again and asked "What the hell are you doing here at this hour?"
"It's 11:00, we thought you'd be up by now." Tamaki stated
"Thank you Tamaki for stating the obvious," I said sourly "What are you doing here on a Sunday? Let me rephrase that; why are you at my doorstep on a Sunday afternoon when you could be doing something that better suited you're time?" I asked.
"We're here because Tamaki wouldn't stop nagging us to come over and bring you to someplace you've never been." Kyoya said.
"There's no place in the world I haven't been." I told Kyoya.
"He's thinking more like a commoner's place." Kyoya told me.
"Aren't you going to let us in Mae?" Hunny asked.
"Oh right, come in," I lowered my voice and said "I guess"
"It's…empty." They all said in unison
"Well its Sunday, the staff has the day off, and my parents went to the cottage with my dog," I told them as if I had repeated a thousand times (which I hadn't. This was the first time those words ever came out of my mouth.)"Wait here while I get ready. And don't you dare move out of this room. I have every camera in this house set up to my TV, so if you go anywhere other than here. I'll know." I told them sternly. I made my way up the stairs and down the hall to my room. Everything is going to change isn't it? Now all I have to do is hope that it's for the better.
I grab my lavender purple t-shirt; it's fitted and has a v neck. I grabbed the closest pair of jeans I could find in my room (which just happened to be Gucci). I got a pair of Prada sandals, got my purse and left my room back towards the host members. I walked down the hall way to the stairs. Grabbed my house keys and went walked down the stairs to see the host member's standing exactly where they were when I first left. Tamaki goes to open his mouth, but I cut him off saying "I just need to grab my coat and then we can leave." And I walk to the closet on the right of the door and grabbed a trench coat that was made by the twins' mother. "So where is this commoners place you're taking me?" I asked.
"It's a surprise." Tamaki told me with a gentle smile.
"I don't like surprises." I mumbled.
"Hmm? What was that Mae?" Hunny asked me.
"I said, I can't wait to see what you have in store." I said with a forced smile.
"You're going to love it! You won't see it coming!" Hunny said excitedly.
We've been driving for an hour and I'm starting to get drowsy. My eyes are starting to close on me. Then they close completely, and my head falls to the nearest shoulder available.
"Mae? Mae, it's time to get up." Someone said. I feel some ones hand gently pushing me awake. My eyes slowly open and I see all the host club members staring at me. Again.
"Yeah, okay." I say. I get out of the car and see the big surprise they had to wake me up for. I look at them and ask them flatly "Why are we at my parents' public beach?"
"Huh? You're parents own this place?"
"Yup, but it's cheaper so the commoners tend to come here other then people like us. But it's supposed to be busy? Why is it empty?"
"Oh, that. We reserved the whole beach for the day." Tamaki said proudly.
"You forgot one thing." I told them
"What did we forget?" Tamaki asked me.
"I don't have a bathing suit or towel." I said
"Actually Mae you do." Hikaru said.
"Our mother was kind enough to give you a selection of bathing suits; they're all from her new collection." Kaoru said as he put his arm around me and led me to a room filled with bathing suits.
"We think this one will work best on you." They say in unison. It's a sky blue bikini and the bottoms had a piece of fabric flowing to my knee.
"I don't do bikini's" I tell them.
"Why? You have the body to pull it off." They asked
"I just don't. Can you find a different one, that's a one piece?" I ask them kind of desperately.
"Sorry. But we only have bikini's with us." They say devilishly. I grab the bikini out of they're hands. And they smile a devilish smile. I tell them to leave the room. They do. And then I get changed into the dreaded bikini they're making me wear. I'm so going to regret this. I grab a cover up, put it on and go out the doors. But I wasn't expecting the twins to force me to let go of it. (well they kinda pulled it off me.). I wrap my arms around my stomach trying to hide it. The twins are grinning from ear to ear quite proud of themselves. Kyoya glances up from his note book and a faint smile crosses his face, then he once again, returns to his notebook. Mori mumbles something that sounded a bit like "She looks beautiful" and blushes. Hunny is jumping up and down saying all kinds of words like: cute, gentle looking, pretty. Among other things. And tamaki, well he's speechless and has a tint of red. I slowly let one of my arms down and the other is holding tightly to the arm that has fallen to my side. And I walk away briskly. They all turned they're heads and stared for a moment, then burst with excitement and started jumping all over the place. But not Mori. Mori kept staring with his gentle eyes, and he showed a faint smile and turned away so no one would be able to see.
I run to the ocean, and even though the water that hits my skin is cold, I go in as fast as I can. But then there's the stomach problem. It's difficult for me to go past my stomach quickly. So now I'm standing in the water, half of it exposed and half of it hidden. And they're still staring at me. I walk in a bit further and it has a sudden drop. I fall completely under water. It's freezing. But somehow I can't get up. Something's holding me down. I open my eyes underwater (which I really hate doing without goggles.) I can swim, I took lessons until I was 9 then joined a swim team but quit shortly after. But we never had a lesson on 'how to carry heavy objects while underwater' but then again no one does. So all I have to do is…..why can't I think? Everything's becoming so burly. At one point I'm awake and the next, everything's black.
"1, 2, 3, 4" I felt air being forced into my lungs.
"1, 2, 3, 4" I heard again "1, 2, 3, 4."
"Common Mae, wake up!" I heard faintly.
"Is she breathing?" I heard another say. Why is everything so blurry?
"Her eyes are opening! Thank god she's alive!" I heard a familiar voice say. I open my eyes slightly to be blinded by the light from the sun. I cough water out of my lungs and sit up. My head's throbbing. I open my eyes again, this time all I see is sand. I look up and see faces surrounding me. Mori is kneeling next to me. Tamaki's paceing back and forth. Hunny looks as if he's been crying and the twins, well they look worried. And then there's Kyoya. Kyoya's just staring at me. He has no expression on his face. Is notebook is put away and his glasses are off. He's rubbing his temple as if he were solving a very complicated math equation. "What happened?" I ask. No one said anything. Mori hugged me, and whispered in my ear "I'm so happy you're alive." I could have sworn that I felt a tear drop fall on my shoulder. His grip loosened and he looked at me, and smiled. He didn't turn away, he just smiled.
"Mae, Oh thank god you're alive!" Hunny said while running towards me, water started to form in his eyes as he hugged me tightly.
"Hunny, I know you're happy and I don't know what happened but I think you may make it happen again if you don't loosen you're grip…..can't breathe!" I tell him. His grip looseness and mouths sorry. Kyoya sighs and puts his glasses back on and gets his notebook back out. The twins run to me and hug me. Tamaki, he just stares turns away and turns back. He continues this for about a minute. Walks a few steps forward, opens his mouth, and then closes it again. Before he can talk again I ask "So what happened?"
"We say you fall underwater. At first we thought it was on purpose but then we saw that you weren't getting up. So we thought something happened. Mori ran in and saw you struggling underwater, and then you weren't. He ran over to where you were and something caught the extra fabric. We're not sure what it was, that kept you down, because by the time Mori got to you it was gone." Kaoru told me. I nodded at him. I got up, with support from the Twins. I steadied myself and walked away from everyone. Leaving everyone behind.